Quentin Blake (b. 1932) Sophie and the BFG An Alternative Version produced for the 2016 Roald Dahl Centenary Portraits project, celebrating 100 years since the author ’ s birth : Sophie and the BFG are among the famous Roald Dahl characters depicted in a series of ten portraits by Quentin Blake who explained the project thus: ‘The Roald Dahl Centenary Portraits ask you to imagine that a number of Dahl’s characters have been invited to come and sit for their portrait; they are depicted, not quite as they appear in the illustrations, but more formally … I hope visitors will be happy to see this group of well-known characters treated as though they were real people – which, of course, to many of us they are’. Watercolour, pencil, watercolour paper, signed. 760 x 565mm
Quentin Blake (b. 1932) Sophie and the BFG An Alternative Version produced for the 2016 Roald Dahl Centenary Portraits project, celebrating 100 years since the author ’ s birth : Sophie and the BFG are among the famous Roald Dahl characters depicted in a series of ten portraits by Quentin Blake who explained the project thus: ‘The Roald Dahl Centenary Portraits ask you to imagine that a number of Dahl’s characters have been invited to come and sit for their portrait; they are depicted, not quite as they appear in the illustrations, but more formally … I hope visitors will be happy to see this group of well-known characters treated as though they were real people – which, of course, to many of us they are’. Watercolour, pencil, watercolour paper, signed. 760 x 565mm
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